Mertensiella

No picture of Mertensiella was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mertensiella itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mertensiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Caucasian salamanderPBDB
Sits inside
SalamandridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20 Mya to 9.67 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocene20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15.98 Mya11.1 Mya20.5 Mya9.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Mertensiella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

4 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Mertensiella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mertensiella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mertensiella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mertensiella was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mertensiella itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mertensiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mertensiella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSalamandridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wolterstorff 1925